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A new play about the people at the heart of our democracy.

Playwright Sarah Burgess (Dry Powder) and Tony-winning director Thomas Kail (Hamilton, Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder) team up again for KINGS, a hilariously blistering new play about money, politics and the state of the American republic.

Kate is a whip-smart lobbyist who doesn’t waste her time on anyone who can’t get elected, stay elected and help her clients get what they want. Kate thinks Representative Sydney Millsap is a political neophyte whose staunch ideals are going to cost her a burgeoning political career.

But Representative Millsap and her high-minded principles turn out to be more resilient than Washington was expecting, and for the first time Kate is faced with a choice that might change everything for her: back the system, or back what she believes in?

KINGS is a scathingly funny new play about the people at the heart of our democracy.

Aya Cash

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AYA CASH (Lauren) currently stars on the critically acclaimed FXX show “You’re the Worst,” and she can be seen on Joe Swanberg’s Netflix anthology series “Easy.” Her additional television credits include Fox’s “Traffic Light,” as well as recurring roles on “The Newsroom,” “We Are Men,” and guest starring roles on “Modern Family,” “Sirens,” “The Good Wife,” “Mercy,” “A Gifted Man,” all of the “Law & Order” Series, and “Brotherhood.” Her film credits include the upcoming Game Over, Man!; Mary Goes Round and Social Animals; as well as Brand New Old Love; Village People; The Wolf of Wall Street; Sleep Walk With Me; The Oranges; and Loitering with Intent. She has appeared Off-Broadway in Light Years, Happy Hour, The Other Place, Offices, Three Changes, From up Here, and The Pain and the Itch.

Eisa Davis

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EISA DAVIS (Representative Sydney Millsap). Recently appeared at The Public in Julius Caesar, Passing Strange, June and Jean in Concert, and solo shows at Joe’s Pub. Her Broadway credits include Passing Strange and Off-Broadway she has appeared in Preludes, The Call, Luck of the Irish, This, Angela’s Mixtape. Her television credits include “The Looming Tower,” “Rise,” “Succession,” “House of Cards,”“Blindspot,” “Hart of Dixie,” “Smash,”and “The Wire.” She is a writer for Netflix’s “She’s Gotta HaveIt” and Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal. Her albums include Something Else. She has received an Obiefor Sustained Excellence and she was a Pulitzer Prizefinalist for her play Bulrusher.

Zach Grenier

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ZACH GRENIER (Senator John McDowell). His many New York stage credits include The Public Theater productions of Talk Radioand Stuff Happens, as well as Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of Beethoven. He appears in the films Crown Heights, Fight Club, Zodiac and Ride with the Devil, among many others. He has played numerous series regular and recurring roles on television and is frequently recognized as David Lee of the CBS show “The Good Wife.”

Gillian Jacobs

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GILLIAN JACOBS (Kate) returns to The Public after appearing in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Little Flower of East Orange in 2008, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Her additional Off-Broadway credits include Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending directed by Blair Brown at Playwrights Horizons and Christopher Denham’s Cagelove directed by Adam Rapp at Rattlestick. Her television credits include Netflix’s “Love”; HBO’s “Girls”; NBC’s “Community”; and the upcoming films Life of the Party, Magic Camp, and Ibiza, as well as the previous films Don’t Think Twice,Dean, Life Partners, Choke among many others. Jacobs made her directorial debut with The Queen of Code, a documentary short about Grace Hopper, which premiered on Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website as part of the Signals docuseries. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Juilliard School.

Additional support for KINGS provided by an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and theLaurents/Hatcher Foundation.

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